Maintenance Window When: 12:15 AM EDT Sunday July 24, 2016 Duration: Up to 10 hours Rogers Network has notified our service provider that they will be making physical changes to fibre network cables providing one of the links to the data center where our web hosting equipment is located. The changes […]
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CUPE 926 Needs You This Weekend!
Sent on behalf of Michele Kramer, President WLUFA Dear Members, By now, you might be aware that CUPE 926 is in a legal strike position (and will exercise that right) as of 12 am this Sunday. The decision to strike has arisen out of the Administration’s unprecedented decision to impose an Agreement on the […]
Labour Disruption
In the event of the labour disruption at Laurier the WLUFA staff will be working from home. Please send an email to [email protected], [email protected] or [email protected] . If this is an urgent matter, please call Sheila McKee-Protopapas at (519) 500-0939.
WLUFA in support of CUPE 926
WLUFA is gearing up for tomorrow’s rally in support of CUPE 926! Join us at the information picket from 7:00 to 10:00 AM.
Canada Post Poised to Lock Out Postal Workers
Another labour dispute with local repercussions involves the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), and could use your support in conversations with your family, friends, and neighbours. Today (Tuesday), Canada Post served notice that it plans to drive fifty thousand Canadian workers out onto the streets without pay in its efforts to get them to impose steep concessions on […]
Rally to Support CUPE 926
Sent on behalf of Michele Kramer, WLUFA President Dear Members, It’s hot outside and it’s getting even hotter inside for our fellow employees of CUPE 926 who have been bargaining for most of this past year to stave off the out-sourcing of their jobs. Please see the message below, written by Marc Xuereb of the […]
Call for nominations / Appel à nominations
Member unions and trustees, Arising from the Defence Fund By-law, the two year term of the President of the Fund will lapse at the end of the Board of Trustees meeting in October 2016. Technically there is NOT a vacancy in the position as the current President continues to serve. This is a call […]
New Ontario Minister of Advanced Education and Skills Development and new Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development
Dear Colleagues: As many of you will be aware, on June 13, 2016 (yesterday) there was a cabinet shuffle in the Ontario government. As part of that shuffle, Deb Mathews was appointed the new Minister of Advanced Education and Skills Development. The new Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development replaces the Ministry of […]
WLUFA Extends Sympathies to the Victims of the Orlando Shootings
On Sunday, June 13th, a gunman opened fire in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, resulting in the death of dozens, with dozens more wounded, the worst mass shooting in US history. WLUFA extends our sympathies to the survivors, and condolences to the friends and families of all the victims of this horrific incident, and […]
Mil Rate Survey 2016 / Enquête sur les taux au mille 2016
*** La version française suit *** Memorandum 16:15 Date: June 9, 2016 To: Presidents and Administrative Officers; Local, Provincial and Federated Associations From: Chantal Vallerand, Director of Operations Re: Mil Rate Survey 2016 Each year CAUT prepares a survey of mil rates charged by member associations […]